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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-07-30 03:03:28 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-08-06 20:52:14 -0700
commitb02ef087a8379fc757b894d6d2e0deff79ccdf20 (patch)
tree79be80a1e34326d9ad924a46db62227e80fae040
parentcd62705f099033ea8aeeb47688f4572b3532db93 (diff)
invalidate_bdev() speedup
We can immediately bale from invalidate_bdev() if the blockdev has no pagecache. This solves the huge IPI storms which hald is causing on the big ia64 machines when it polls CDROM drives. Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 23f1f3a68077..7f6d65925dea 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -473,13 +473,18 @@ out:
pass does the actual I/O. */
void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, int destroy_dirty_buffers)
{
+ struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
+
+ if (mapping->nrpages == 0)
+ return;
+
invalidate_bh_lrus();
/*
* FIXME: what about destroy_dirty_buffers?
* We really want to use invalidate_inode_pages2() for
* that, but not until that's cleaned up.
*/
- invalidate_inode_pages(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping);
+ invalidate_inode_pages(mapping);
}
/*